Over the years, a number of studies (from Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas) have documented dismal outcomes in virtual schools, including low course - completion rates and higher - than -
average school dropout rates.
Not exact matches
In fact, research has shown that many Native Americans perform poorly in traditional
schools;
dropout rates average 35 percent nationally.
Interestingly enough, no study has yet shown better high
school test scores, but the Boston studies have shown higher grade point
averages and, of course, attendance goes through the roof and
dropout rates are decreased.
And nationally, the economic impact is clear: A 2011 analysis by the Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that by halving the 2010 national
dropout rate, for example (an estimated 1.3 million students that year), «new» graduates would likely earn a collective $ 7.6 billion more in an
average year than they would without a high
school diploma.
As a group, Hispanics perform well below
average on national achievement tests, and their high
school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.
Both Maine
schools, though, follow their alumni, and their high
school dropout rates are higher than the national
average.
Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by
averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance
rates,
dropout rates, and promotion
rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary
school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).
New Tech's internal evaluation data indicates promising evidence that its model has replicated successfully, with an
average four - year cohort graduation
rate of 86 percent, an
average dropout rate of less than 3 percent, and a college enrollment
rate of 67 percent immediately following high
school graduation (New Tech Network Outcomes, April 2012; New Tech data 2012).
The innovation charter
schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent
average dropout rate in our public high
schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.
The state, which took over the McDowell public
schools nearly a decade ago, has failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a
dropout rate more than three times the national
average.
At Baltimore Talent Development High
School, the one - year
dropout rate remained below the citywide
average dropout rate (that includes selective magnet and charter
schools) in each year since its inception in 2004 - 2005 and reached 2.3 % in 2009 - 2010, almost half the citywide
average of 4.1 %.
Brownsville, TX — A large charter
school with a strong record of accomplishment has achieved an exceptionally low 20:1 student - teacher ratio and a
dropout rate averaging a mere 1.4 %.
The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High
School Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent by
School Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national
average on - time high
school graduation rate of 90 percent by
school graduation
rate of 90 percent by 2020.
The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High
School Dropout Epidemic shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent by
School Dropout Epidemic shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national
average on - time high
school graduation rate of 90 percent by
school graduation
rate of 90 percent by 2020.
Multiple research studies show that community
schools work, including a recent Child Trends meta - analysis that found that community
schools support young people's needs, reduce grade retention and
dropout rates, and increase attendance, math achievement, and grade - point
averages.15
On
average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high
school dropout and nonmarital teen birth
rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31